Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part II

This second part of a two-volume work contains 22 research articles on various aspects of computational earthquake physics. Coverage includes the promising earthquake forecasting model LURR (Load-Unload Response Ratio); pattern informatics and phase dynamics and their applications; computational algorithms, including continuum damage models and visualization and analysis of geophysical datasets; and assimilation of data.

Zusammenfassung

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.

The present volume - Part II - incorporates computational environment and algorithms, data assimilation and understanding, model applications and iSERVO. Topics covered range from iSERVO and QuakeSim: implementing the international solid earth research virtual observatory by integrating computational grid and geographical information web services; LURR (Load-Unload Response Ratio) described in six papers involving this promising earthquake forecasting model; pattern informatics and phase dynamics and their applications, which was also a highlight in the Workshop; computational algorithms, including continuum damage models and visualization and analysis of geophysical datasets; evolution of mantle material; the state vector approach; and assimilation of data such as geodetic data, GPS data, and seismicity and laboratory experimental data.

Inhalt
5) Earthquake Events in Southern California.- Visualization and Analysis of Multi-terabyte Geophysical Datasets in an Interactive Setting with Remote Webcam Capabilities.- A Grid Framework for Visualization Services in the Earth Sciences.- Thermal Effects in the Evolution of Initially Layered Mantle Material.- Detecting Regional Events via Statistical Analysis of Geodetic Networks.- A Recent Application of the ETAS Model and a Proposed Method for Prediction of Strong Aftershocks.- Orientation-based Continuum Damage Models for Rocks.- Experimental Study of the Earthquake Recurrence Period and the Trend of Post-seismicDevelopment.- State Vector: A New Approach to Prediction of the Failure of Brittle Heterogeneous Media and Large Earthquakes.- Crustal Movement Observed by GPS and Earthquake Activity in the Chinese Mainland and its Neighborhood.- Thermo-hydro-Mechanical Modeling of CO2 Sequestration System Around Fault Environment.